The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-07-28


tnral Show will be held at the Lewiston
State Fair Grounds, October 4th, 9TH and
9th. The fair will be held at City Hall.
Tehre will be $500 in purses and big ex-
hioit OF Androscoggin's products.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
Leander Shepard, overseer in the card
room at Cabot mill, is one Of the busiest men
in Brunswick. Since last March he has been
constructing steam launch in his back yard
in the rear of Odd Fellows Block He has
only worked on the launch mornings, moons
and after his4ebors in the mill were COM
pleted. The launSe Is nearly completed and
Is good model and when overheard will be
quite "a remarkable steamcv from the fact
that Mr.. Shepard has been the draughtsman,
made the model and has constructed the
boat without ever working in any sl..o yard I.
Ihe dimensions Of the boat are Is ton Keel
Z feet width and feet deep. Mr.. Shepard
made all tne designs and drawings Of the
engine which will be constructed at the
GosS Marine Iron Works at Bath.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
e. K. Parmenter, A. B., graduate af Colby.
~, has accepted the position Of first as
sistant in Mr.. NC. Mitchell's boys school
at Bellerica, Mass. He will teach Greek,
Latin, and English literature. Mr.. Parmen-
ter Is SON of Mr.. Thomas Parmenter Of
China, where he has served two years as
school supervisor.
The brooks and streams that ran through
and about WateryiIle are swollen by the Re-
cent rains and rushing over their banks
seress streets and lanes, through back yards
ana taNns. Several pigs were rescued by
dint of hard struggling In one case where
It was impossible TO get the animal out an
old door was tiff0~n in upon which the pig
sailed around until ffe Hood subsidized. No
great damage was done. The bulkhead at
Orammetts MIL ON Emerson stream, went
out, carrying considerable qua7titys of
small lumber belonging to Hayden e<pd
Robinson: Hayden brook, a small stream
running through the upper part of the town.
felt the rise the most. This brook runs
across 70 less than six streets. 1t flooded
Tour OF these and carried away one bridge
Ii also flooded Flood * Co.'S wood and coal
yard, doing some damage. Numerous gar
denS along its course were OverflOwed and
destroyed. The bridge over the Littlefeld
brook on the Fairfield road was washed out.
KNOX COUNTY.
The reunion Of the 1st Maine Heavy Artil-
iery will be held at Vinalhaven, Tuesday,
Aug. 23d.
PENoBscor COUNTY.
The new military company In Bangor to
take the place Of the disbanded Jameson
Guards is likely to a success. 1t will prob
aDly JOIN the militia, and very likely will be
named alter an old company which was in
existence before the war and went into the
war as part OF the Second Maine Regiment.
The, Bangor Wing says that the recent
rains have not extended far enough north TO
reach the waters where the drives are, TO
any extent. At some of the lakes n con-
siderable amount Of water has fallen, but
not enough to affect the condition OF the
drives which are still stationary. The water
In the main Penobscot river has risen over a
foot within the last three days.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
DR.. w. III. Parsons received quite severe
injury last week while returning from the
mills TO Damariscotta. His horse became
frightened and SHE'D to one side, throwing
him from his buggy and injuring one leg be-
sides giving him severe shaking up.
AT last the welcome rain has come. For the
last four days 1t has come down steadily, the
most rain at one time for year. Until now
crops have been very backward on account
Of drought.
An attempt to start corn factory was
made In this county last fall and spring.
Although the attempt failed another will be
made this fall. Any firm looking for new
plant the coming summer will do well TO
address L. L.. Clarke at DamariScOtta Mills.
For nearly seven years Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
w. Freese, Of Portland, have made an un-
nual summer visit to Newcastle, and each
summer 1t has rainedson their arrival Mrs.
Freese arrived in Damariscotta last week ac-
companied by Miss Hattie Morgan of Wal
than, Mass; and singular to relate the
draught broke Immediately upon her arrival
and 1t rained four days
sAGADAHoc COUNTY.
At a meeting of the stockholders of the
| New England shipping company yesterday
| forenoon at Bath 1t was unanimously voted
to subscribe the amount necessary to cover
the loss by the recent fire at the company S
| yards.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The Doddlin Granite Company of Nor.
/ rldgewock are about constructing line OF
railroad from the Somerset Railway to their
| quarry, a distance Of about one mile. The
| working survey was begun Monday. S. c.
Mills and John III. Burgess are to do the
| grading, commencing next week. AS soon
| as this Is completed they will begin on the
| Somerset railway extension at North AnsOn.
| The Doddlln Company have an order for T.
900 feet of curbing for Cincinnati, which
| they are now filling.
At meeting Of the Fairfield Village Cor
/ pOratlOn, last Saturday, twas voted TO allow
the Waterville Water Company to place %
| hydrants for fire purposes In the village at
| $40 per year for each.
WALDO COUNTY.
| Workmen are busy, setting the boiler and
/ engine for the corn canning factory at Unity.
| The place already begins TO assume an air of
| business. Shocks for ten thousand boxes
are being stored at the factory, where men
4 Will SubH DlEAi w Phb th1ul iOptLntT. INK
boxes will each contain three dozen cans
| Mr. Rolf. the veteran eanmaker, is turning
| of about three thousand cans per day. Tht
three hundred acres Of corn planted, arC
looking very nicely, and the prospects /.
that the yield VIII be more than an average
| YORK COUNTY.
| The Ninth Maine Regiment will meet al
Old Orchard for their annual reunion, Tues
day, August 9th; The president of the as
sociation, Geo b Dyer, $50 fremont street
Boston, requests each cOmrade to bring tC
the reunion any papers. letters, records OF
diaries that will assist In material for the
history Of the regiment, and TO notify him al
once II able TO attend, that provision may be
made for all. A paper has been prepared by
Capt. Charles A. Brooks ON The 9th Maine
from Augusta 70 Morris Island" and paper
] by Adjutant James T.. Shepard on THE oh
Maine from Morris Island to Darbytowr
road